Spring 2003 Events

Spring 2003 events are listed below,
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Spring 2003 Events

• May 1
  2003 Wisconsin World Affairs Geographic Conference (in collaboration with the Institute of World Affairs, UW-Milwaukee School of Continuing Education): "Europe in Transition: Integration or Fragmentation?"



• April 28
  Ulrike Guérot
  Head of the EU-Unit at the Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin
  "The European Convention, Franco-German Relations, and the Construction of a New Europe"



• April 25-26
  Conference: "Italian Feminisms: Literature, Theory, Visual Arts"



• April 25
  François Rubio
  "Existe-t-il une exception des ONG françaises" (in French)



• April 25
  Panel discussion: "New Directions in the History of European Consumerism"



• April 24
  Nurhan Atasoy
  Professor Emeritus, Istanbul University
  (2003 Ruth Ketterer Harris Memorial Lecture, presented by The Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection)
  "Imperial Ottoman Tents: Mobile Palaces"



• April 24
  Victoria de Grazia
  Professor of History, Columbia University
  "Consumer Culture in Cold War Europe: Reflections on the Exercise of Soft Power"



• April 24
  François Rubio
  "20 Years After: Médecins du Monde Fighting Against All Illness. Even Injustice" (in English)



• April 22
  Aline Tauzin
  Senior Researcher in anthropology at the French National Center for Scientific Research and the University of Picardy, and Professor at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris
  "Women in Western Sahara: Between Constraint and Avoidance" (in English)



• April 21
  Aline Tauzin
  Chercheur au CNRS / Université de Picardie
  "La langue française à la frontière entre l’Afrique sub-saharienne et le Maghreb" (in French)



• April 15
  Steven Beller
  Independent scholar
  "The Future of a Past: Austrians and Jews in Austrian History"



• April 10
  Rüdiger van den Boom - CANCELLED
  Director, Goethe Institute-Chicago
  CGES Brownbag Lecture: Informational Talk about the Goethe Institute in Chicago



• April 10
  Judith Walkowitz
  Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University
  "Schleppers and Shoppers: Jews, Street Markets, and Ready-to-Wear Fashion in Interwar London"



• April 7
  Ambassador Hugo Paemen
  Former EU Ambassador to the United States, Special Advisor to the President of the European Commission, and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University
  "Conflicting U.S. and European Approaches to the New World Order: Economic Relations and Security"
  Lecture #3 in the Spring 2003 Transatlantic Speakers Series



• April 3-5
  Conference: "National Feminisms in a Transnational Arena: The European Union and Gender Politics"



• April 3
  Alexander Petri
  Consul General (Chicago) of the Federal Republic of Germany
  "Trans-Atlantic Relations Between Germany and the U.S."



• March 28
  Conference: "Best Practices in Teaching Global Languages and Cultures"
  Keynote address: "Internet-Mediated Intercultural Learning: Accounts from France, Germany, and the U.S." (Julie Belz and Steven Thorne, Pennsylvania State University)



• March 27
  Philippe Massé
  Research Consultant to Oxfam-Québec
  "Oxfam-Québec: The human being at the heart of development" (in English)



• March 27
  Markus Dirk Dubber
  Professor of Law & Director of the Buffalo Criminal Law Center SUNY at Buffalo School of Law
  "The Police Power and the Foundations of Criminal Law"



• March 27-30
  WI Film Festival -
  Includes the Series: "Journeys: Films from the New Europe"



• March 26
  Julia Szalai
  Marshall Monnet Scholar-in-Residence and Professor of Social Policy, ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary
  "Hungary's EU-Accession from a Gender Perspective: Will Women's Post-1990 Gains Wither Away?"
  An audio version of this talk is available! See also a related paper by Julia Szalai.



• March 26
  Philippe Massé
  Research Consultant to Oxfam-Québec
  "Oxfam-Québec: L’être humain au coeur du développement" (in French)



• March 25
  Emmanuel Désveaux
  Maître de conférence, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris
  "Le musee et l’anthropologie dans l’ère post-coloniale"



• March 25
  Paddy Woodworth
  Irish journalist and author
  "Using Terror Against Terrorists: The Consequences of a Dirty War for Spanish Democracy"



• March 24
  Julia Szalai
  Marshall Monnet Scholar-in-Residence and Professor of Social Policy, ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary
  "Conflicts of Class, Gender and Race in Hungary's Post-1990 Welfare Policy"
  See also a related paper by Julia Szalai.



• March 24-26
  Julia Szalai
  Marshall Monnet Scholar in Residence



• March 21-23
  Conference: Education Across Six Continents: Teaching and Curriculum for a Global Society



• March 18
  Panel Discussion: "Immigration and Integration: Post-9/11 Developments in Germany and the United States"



• March 14
  Symposium: "Pinocchio's Adventures: Marionettes, Automata and Mechanized Life in Literature and the Visual Arts"



• March 13
  Myra Marx Ferree
  Department of Sociology, UW-Madison
  "Debating Abortion: Germany and the U.S."



• March 10
  Joseph H.H. Weiler
  Joseph Straus Professor and European Union Jean Monnet Chair, NYU School of Law
  "Governance without Government: The Normative Challenge to International Law"
  Lecture #2 in the Spring 2003 Transatlantic Speakers Series



• March 6
  Kemal Saiki
  International Marketing and Corporate Communications Consultant
  "Aborder les relations publiques et la communication institutionnelle en milieu francophone"



• March 6
  Alfred Defago
  Visiting International Institute Professor and Former Ambassador of Switzerland to the United States
  Brown Bag Lunch: "Swissification" of Europe? Multicultural Switzerland as a case study for EU integration"



• March 5
  Robert Fenstermacher
  Executive Director, CDS International
  "Internships and International Careers: Building the Professional Bridge to Europe"



• March 1
  Wisconsin International Law Journal Symposium:
  "The Newly Established International Criminal Court: Challenges and Opportunities that Lie Ahead in its First Year"



• February 27
  Cem Özdemir
  German Marshall Fund Fellow and former member of the German Bundestag (BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN)
  "From Foreigners to Citizens: Immigrants in Germany"



• February 26
  Cem Özdemir
  German Marshall Fund Fellow and former member of the German Bundestag (BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN)
  "Turkey in Europe"



• February 25
  Philippe Pochet
  EU Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence
  "Employment and Social Policy Since Maastricht: Standing up to the European Monetary Union"



• February 24
  Michael Rühle
  Head of the Policy Planning and Speech Writing Section of the Political Affairs Division at NATO
  "Continental Drift? Is Europe Permanently Separating Itself from the US in Global Affairs"



• February 22
  Martin Goldsmith
  Musicologist and former NPR commentator
  "The Inextinguishable Symphony - A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany"



• February 20
  Daniel Sherman
  Department of History and Director, Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  "Trouble in Paradise: France and the Beginnings of Mass Tourism in Tahiti"



• February 13
  William Davey
  Edwin M. Adams Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law
  "Resolving U.S. - European Disputes Through Law: Is WTO Law Effective?"
  Lecture #1 in the Spring 2003 Transatlantic Speakers Series



• February 10
  Michel Maffesoli
  Professor of Sociology, Sorbonne, Paris
  "Du bon usage du mal"



• February 10
  Dick Ringler
  Scandinavian Studies
  “Bard of Iceland: Jónas Hallgrímsson, Poet and Scientist”



• February 5
  Yakin Ertürk
  Sociology and Gender & Women’s Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, and Marshall Monnet Scholar in Residence
  “Can International Regimes Help Transcend Dichotomies? The United Nations and the Candidacy to The European Union”



• February 3
  Yakin Ertürk
  Sociology and Gender & Women’s Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, and Marshall Monnet Scholar in Residence
  “Identity Politics: Secularist and Islamist Discourses”



• February 2-7
  Yakin Ertürk
  Marshall Monnet Scholar in Residence